clarify bitstring docstring to note bigendian (#53792)

It seemed helpful to note in the `bitstring` docs that the bit ordering is bigendian.
JuliaLang · Apr 23, 2024 · 435ba8f · 435ba8f
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diff --git a/base/intfuncs.jl b/base/intfuncs.jl
@@ -940,7 +940,8 @@ string(b::Bool) = b ? "true" : "false"
 """
     bitstring(n)
 
-A string giving the literal bit representation of a primitive type.
+A string giving the literal bit representation of a primitive type
+(in bigendian order, i.e. most-significant bit first).
 
 See also [`count_ones`](@ref), [`count_zeros`](@ref), [`digits`](@ref).